@Article{CiCP-24-635, author = {}, title = {Stabilized Predictor-Corrector Schemes for Gradient Flows with Strong Anisotropic Free Energy}, journal = {Communications in Computational Physics}, year = {2018}, volume = {24}, number = {3}, pages = {635--654}, abstract = {

Gradient flows with strong anisotropic free energy are difficult to deal with numerically with existing approaches. We propose a stabilized predictor-corrector approach to construct schemes which are second-order accurate, easy to implement, and maintain the stability of first-order stabilized schemes. We apply the new approach to three different types of gradient flows with strong anisotropic free energy: anisotropic diffusion equation, anisotropic Cahn-Hilliard equation, and Cahn-Hilliard equation with degenerate diffusion mobility. Numerical results are presented to show that the stabilized predictor-corrector schemes are second-order accurate, unconditionally stable for the first two equations, and allow larger time step than the first-order stabilized scheme for the last equation. We also prove rigorously that, for the isotropic Cahn-Hilliard equation, the stabilized predictor-corrector scheme is of second-order.

}, issn = {1991-7120}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2017-0209}, url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/12274.html} }